Seven adults, two babies, and two dogs managed to escape rising waters in their Hunt, Texas, home by punching a hole through their home's loft. Eighty-three-year-old Penny Deupree and her family show CNN's Pamela Brown how they survived the devastating floods. | CNN Politics

The Deupree family was at their grandmother’s home in Hunt, Texas, to celebrate July 4 when they say water from the Guadalupe River surged into the house in a matter of minutes, forcing them into the structure’s windowless loft. It was there that they used a fan, a wooden buoy and a pocket knife to punch a hole in the wall, allowing every single family member to escape the rising floodwaters. The house was destroyed, but miraculously, the entire family survived: “We’re blessed.” https://cbsn.ws/